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Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shown the connection…Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shewn the connexion…
Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shown the connection which there is between the promise, on God's part; and duty, on our part, in the covenant of grace as it was delivered in several sermons, preached in order to solemn renewing of covenant. By Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shewn the connexion which there is between the promise, on God's part; and duty, on our part, in the covenant of grace as it was delivered in several sermons, preached in order to solemn renewing of covenant. By Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.
printed by James Glen for Samuel Sewall, 1682
Discourse › Pages 1-60: Covenant-Keeping the way to Blessedness.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Touching the nature, properties, and excellency of the Covenant of Redemption, though it be of great worth and use to contemplate, yet it belongs not to our present discourse: The matter we are upon refers to the Covenant of Reconciliation, in which Man stands as a Party actually engaged to the performance of those terms and conditions which are required of him therein; and it is only in the way of his attendance thereunto, according to the scope and tenor of them that he can expect to enjoy the consequent blessing there promised.
Touching the nature, properties, and excellency of the Covenant of Redemption, though it be of great worth and use to contemplate, yet it belongs not to our present discourse: The matter we are upon referrs to the Covenant of Reconciliation, in which Man stands as a Party actually engaged to the performance of those terms and conditions which are required of him therein; and it is only in the way of his attendance thereunto, according to the scope and tenor of them that he can expect to enjoy the consequent blessing there promised.
Of the Covenant of Reconciliation we may take this Description.
It is that mutual engagement, in which God the Father, Son and Spirit on the one side, and His Church or People on the other side, stand engaged, in Conditions, and consequent Promises. I mean, that the Church is engaged to Conditions, and God to consequent Promises.